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City Council Clowns Prance Again On Tuesday Afternoon
Here's a brief suggestion of afternoon agenda matters that may concern homeless advocates, those concerned with police abuses, and renters vainly seeking for some sort of relief as the economic noose grows tighter. I hope to be supplementing this barebones list with some specific commentary later today.
Folks can also find some of my thoughts at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb121007.mp3 (about 3 or 3 1/2 hours into the audio file).
Folks can also find some of my thoughts at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb121007.mp3 (about 3 or 3 1/2 hours into the audio file).
The Santa Cruz City Council is having its first regular meeting in a month.
Items I suggest might be of interest to folks are:
CLOSED SESSION (begins at 1:30 PM in the City Hall Conference Room behind Council chambers)
Closed Session Item #A1 Proposal to Settle or Take to Trial my Mock-Nazi Salute Case of 2002
Closed Session Item #A3 The proposed new Unreasonably Disturbing Noise law, to replace the one thrown out by the Federal District Court last week
Closed Session Item #C Claims for false arrest by the biker club folks from last February
REGULAR AFTERNOON SESSION (begins at 3 p.m. though there will be some waiting through “presentations” which though on the agenda, are excluded from public comment--illlegally, I believe.)
Consent Agenda Item #2: Claims for false arrest by the biker club folks from last February—the chance for the public to speak in front of tv cameras.
Consent Agenda Item #5: $80,000 for “security patrols” for the library and city hall complex.
Consent Agenda Item #13: Progress of the “more money for De Sal” stuff.
Regular Business Agenda Item #18: the new and worsened Unreasonably Disturbing Noise law
Regular Business Agenda Item #20 Have staff consider the devastating effects on City Council's termination of rent control for De Anza Mobile Home Park a decade ago.
ORAL COMMUNCIATIONS: around 5 PM. For discussion of homeless sweeps, Occupy Santa Cruz related issues, police repression, and other issues routinely ignored by or excluded from the agenda by Mayor Lane.
More on this later today, hopefully.
UNREASONABLY DISTURBING POLICE BEHAVIOR LIKELY WITH NEW LAW
For those particularly interested in the Unreasonably Disturbing Noise law, go to http://www3.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=264&doctype=AGENDA for the staff report and text of the new law.
I also had a lengthy interview with Mike Millen, the attorney for William Hampsmire, who successfully challenged the law in federal court. Go to http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb121007.mp3 (about 4 1/2 hours into the audio file).
For an alternate noise ordinance that actually gives an objective standard instead of the vague "unreasonably disturbing" phrase, see San Mateo's law at http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/index.aspx?NID=402 .
Items I suggest might be of interest to folks are:
CLOSED SESSION (begins at 1:30 PM in the City Hall Conference Room behind Council chambers)
Closed Session Item #A1 Proposal to Settle or Take to Trial my Mock-Nazi Salute Case of 2002
Closed Session Item #A3 The proposed new Unreasonably Disturbing Noise law, to replace the one thrown out by the Federal District Court last week
Closed Session Item #C Claims for false arrest by the biker club folks from last February
REGULAR AFTERNOON SESSION (begins at 3 p.m. though there will be some waiting through “presentations” which though on the agenda, are excluded from public comment--illlegally, I believe.)
Consent Agenda Item #2: Claims for false arrest by the biker club folks from last February—the chance for the public to speak in front of tv cameras.
Consent Agenda Item #5: $80,000 for “security patrols” for the library and city hall complex.
Consent Agenda Item #13: Progress of the “more money for De Sal” stuff.
Regular Business Agenda Item #18: the new and worsened Unreasonably Disturbing Noise law
Regular Business Agenda Item #20 Have staff consider the devastating effects on City Council's termination of rent control for De Anza Mobile Home Park a decade ago.
ORAL COMMUNCIATIONS: around 5 PM. For discussion of homeless sweeps, Occupy Santa Cruz related issues, police repression, and other issues routinely ignored by or excluded from the agenda by Mayor Lane.
More on this later today, hopefully.
UNREASONABLY DISTURBING POLICE BEHAVIOR LIKELY WITH NEW LAW
For those particularly interested in the Unreasonably Disturbing Noise law, go to http://www3.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=264&doctype=AGENDA for the staff report and text of the new law.
I also had a lengthy interview with Mike Millen, the attorney for William Hampsmire, who successfully challenged the law in federal court. Go to http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb121007.mp3 (about 4 1/2 hours into the audio file).
For an alternate noise ordinance that actually gives an objective standard instead of the vague "unreasonably disturbing" phrase, see San Mateo's law at http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/index.aspx?NID=402 .
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